David Loucky

Dr. David Loucky Professor: Trombone, Euphonium, Low Brass

Dr. David Loucky, trombonist and low brass specialist, performs on all low brass instruments.
A faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University since 1989, he also performed
for two seasons as Assistant Principal Trombonist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
He has performed and lectured at several International Trombone Festivals, and International
Tuba-Euphonium Conferences and served on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor's School
for the Arts. He is an active performer with the Nashville Symphony, the New Hampshire
Music Festival, the Huntsville Symphony, the Stones River Chamber Players, the MTSU
Faculty Jazz Combo, the Middle Tennessee Jazz Orchestra. the MTSU Faculty Brass Quintet,
and the Nashville Chamber Brass.

With the St. Louis Symphony, Loucky toured 6 European countries and four states, performed
six times in Carnegie Hall, and played in all the low brass chairs except tuba (Principal,
Assistant, Second and Bass Trombone, Euphonium and Bass Trumpet). He was also very
active in the Symphony's educational arm, the Community Partnership Program. With
the Nashville Symphony he has played in every low brass chair including tuba, and
also performed in that orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut in 2000.

Loucky earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University, a Master of Music from
Yale School of Music, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the State University of
New York at Stony Brook. He had additional studies in Cologne, Germany and Vienna,
Austria in both classical and jazz traditions. His principal teachers include John
Swallow (New York Brass Quintet and NYC Ballet), Ronald Borror (American Brass Quintet
and NYC Ballet), Bill Harris (Syracuse Symphony), Jiggs Whigam (West German Radio
Big Band), Horst Kublbock (Vienna Symphony) and Eric Kleinschuster (Austrian Radio
Big Band).

Loucky performs on a period 19th century ophicleide, the predecessor of the tuba and
euphonium. He engages in the research of repertoire for this instrument and collaborates
with composers who are interested in writing new works for it.